HARO TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY CONTEST WINNERS!

THE HARO PRIZES!

OK gang… Here’s what you’ve been waiting for! IF you’re on this list, email me from the same email you used to send in your screenshot, and we’ll get your prizes out! And yes, iPads are gonna take a few weeks. Deal. :)
iPad: Heather Whaling
iPad: Marc Pitman
iPod: Sarah Kimmel
A Flipcam, donated by Pixability: [...]



The Two-Year-Anniversary HARO Day!

PRIZE LIST!
2 iPads
One Flipcam (thanks to Pixability)
One day of “Shirt wearing brand publicity” Thanks to I Wear Your Shirt
One Kodak ZI8 Camera (sweet! Compliments of Bert Martinez)
A $100 Gift Certificate from Carlo’s Bakery
And tons more stuff!!
So back in early 2008, we launched a HARO day – Essentially, we asked everyone to make all of their [...]



What HARO is – And what HARO isn’t – A hotel analogy

You know, we get thousands of emails from people using HARO on a regular basis. Tons of them are “Hey, we got published!” or “Hey, our ad on your site rocked!” which is awesome.
But then, every once in a while, we get the emails from people pissed off that our free service doesn’t completely do [...]



I Have Seen the Douchebag. And He is (some of) Us.

I woke up this morning, my first night home after a very successful South by Southwest, to a hungry cat at 5:30am. I was exhausted, and pushed her away. Turns out, she wasn’t so much hungry, as she was trying to inform me of a shitstorm brewing in the comments section of a well-written blog [...]



The Power of SEO – I’m now a believer

Go to Google right now and type in the word “Publicity” without the quotes. Go ahead. I’ll wait.
Notice the second item that comes up in search? NOT in the Google ads, but in actual organic search?
Here’s a photo, in case you didn’t.

Yes, that’s HARO right there as number two, right behind Wikipedia, and in [...]